0.0 – Christian Science Publication Contents

Final Edition authorized by Mary Baker Eddy.

  	    Matter cannot be inflamed. Inflammation is fear, an
 1	excited state of mortals which is not normal. Immor-
  	tal Mind is the only cause; therefore disease is neither a
 3	cause nor an effect. Mind in every case is the	                        Matter is
  	eternal God, good. Sin, disease, and death	                                not inflamed 
  	have no foundations in Truth. Inflammation as a mor-
 6	tal belief quickens or impedes the action of the system,
  	because thought moves quickly or slowly, leaps or halts
  	when it contemplates unpleasant things, or when the in-
 9	dividual looks upon some object which he dreads. In-
  	flammation never appears in a part which mortal thought
  	does not reach. That is why opiates relieve inflammation. 
12	They quiet the thought by inducing stupefaction and by
  	resorting to matter instead of to Mind. Opiates do not
  	remove the pain in any scientific sense. They only ren-
15	der mortal mind temporarily less fearful, till it can master
  	an erroneous belief.